In the introduction to Walter Phillips' book on printmaking, the English artist W. Giles wrote in 1926:

"In the West the artist who desired to make color-prints was forced to do everything himself, as trained craftsmen did not exist; he was seriously handicapped by the want of technical knowledge, but unity of purpose tended to originality; nevertheless some artists, indifferent to this, and only requiring replicas of their work, have not scrupled to go to Japan and employ her craftsmen to reproduce their work, and in so doing have acquired much false glory. This evil practice is fatal to the true cause of the color-print."

Some of us don't quite see it that way. In this section you can see some examples of prints made with this evil practice ...